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This beer is a little difficult for me to rate as it’s very good, very fresh, and as much as I like hops, maybe they overdid the hop in this. Served at a good temperature and poured a large, foamy, frothy, off-white head that settles out after a bit and plenty of lace. Color is a crystal clear yellow gold with a number of small bubble trails. Aroma is hop, malt, grain, grass. Flavor is like nose, with good balance to the carbonic tang; fairly dry. Body is good although, for a Czech Pils, the hops do clash a bit with the carbonation a bit in contrast to the true Czech smoothness. Finish is like flavor, fairly long and very drinkable.

I found this single 11.2oz brown bottle at the new Binny's store in Bloomingdale, IL for the rather steep price of $4.99 a bottle. No freshness date but there is a short blurb about the beer on the side label.

The beer poured a hazy straw gold color with a fantastic 4 finger white head that lasted several minutes. Lacing was also plentiful. No complaint about the looks.

The smell was a pleasant mix of both malt and hops. The label says they use a boatload of Saaz hops in here, so I'm sure that's what I'm smelling.

The taste is fruity, malty, and pleasantly bitter. There's a lot more bitterness here than what you'd expect in your typical pilsner, but I loved it. As one of the noble hops, the Saaz bitterness is mild, so going extra heavy on Saaz does not give it that IPA-like kick, so it worked well here in this New Zealand pilsner. There is some lingering bitterness in the aftertaste as well.

Medium bodied, smooth, and decent carbonation make for a pleasant mouthfeel.

Only the price keeps this from being a great session beer. At $30 a six-pack I can only enjoy this one bottle at a time.

A: The beer is very hazy yellow in color and has a moderate amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a finger and a half white head that has excellent retention properties and consistently left a half finger high head covering the surface and lots of lacing down the sides of the glass.
S: There are light to moderate aromas of grassy hops in the nose.
T: The hops really stand out in this beer, contributing flavors of grassy and herbal hops along with a light to moderate amount of carbonation.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied (with some slight hints of chewiness) on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer seems very different compared to other pilseners in the sense that it’s dominated by aromas and flavors of hops, so this might be something that is appealing to a hop head that is looking for a lighter-bodied beer compared to India Pale Ales.

Silver straw color with a small creamy white head. Smells of fresh cut grass, citrus, white grapes and hint of passionfruit. Herbal hop bitterness balanced with a gorgeous citrus and pinot gris sweetness. Silky light body with a dry hop finish. Though it should be noted that this brew can very quit a bit from batch to batch, when its on it blows Emerson's out of the water. The sexiest Pils in NZ, capable of challenging the best from around the world.

Czech yeast, Kiwi hops - Pacific Jade to bitter. Motueka, Nelson Sauvin, and Riwaka for flavour. A couple of those are Noble descendents, a couple are tropical fruit, and that's the story. A bit thin - classic Czech Pils do have a malt presence - but as much hops as you can fit in any pale beer that's not "SomethingPA".

I need some refreshment. Watching sports is making me thirsty. This calls for a Kiwi beer(another brewery to hit the shores?!). On to the beer:

Chill hazed straw yellow in color, with visible carbonation running through and a head that's a ½ inch head. The nose offers a lot of hay-like aromas. Some hops are found underneath that thick layer of hay. Hey, let's get drinkin...

Unlike many of the style, this pilsner comes out with flavor. In many parts, it's a very agreeable experience. In a few spots, there are small potholes that try to get in the way. The taste starts bittersweet, with honey, hay, and grassy flavors in the raw. The biterness grows, and a bite of hops arrives. I sense a subtle phenolic note here and there, hoping it doesn't get in the way. The flavor dries out in the end, helping to provide a clean finish. As for the mouthfeel, is medium bodied with a gentle crispness.

330ml bottle, part of an apparently representative mixed-sixpack from this brewery, recently made available in Alberta.

This beer pours a clear, kind of glassy, pale golden hue, with a half finger of bristling, foamy off-white head, which bleeds away rather quickly, leaving nothing more than a low ebbing berm around the glass.

The bubbles are fairly sedate, though hardly inert, the body a sturdy medium weight, and generally smooth, nothing really pulling or tugging, as one might expect. It finishes on the dry side, the hops surely overriding any latent malt vagaries, quite decidedly so.

An agreeable Czech pilsener, but through the filter of that increasingly familiar New Zealand terroir - grassy, but not _grassy_, y'know?

A bold and hoppy pilsner featuring NZ hops, with an aromatic herbal nose but with the hop power of an American pale ale. Long lasting hoppy aftertaste with more hop complexity than usual. Appropriate malts for balance mainly appear as a limitation on bitterness.

Vibrant gold pour with a large but quickly fading head that leaves lot of lacing.
Lots of grassy saaz in the aroma, with spicy and subtle sweet floral, grape and passionfruit notes.
Classic pilsener taste with light bready and grainy malt. Not much hops flavour, but a full-on metallic bitterness hits you in the face.
Light body, moderately high carbonation - good for the style.

I really enjoyed this beer, even though it is sometimes hard to get, I will hunt down more. Probably the hoppiest Pils I have ever tried, the only one i can think of that is similar is knappstein. They ALMOST overpower it, but then as a big fan of IPA's and DIPA's, I guess I am not scared of hops! Appearance is a clear straw yellow with about an inch of white head that fades after a few minutes. A good looking beer. The nose is big saaz, with oddly enough, seemingly a trace of diff oil!!?? and Nelson Sauvin I think. The malt backs it up really well, and there is a really nice lingering bitterness that hangs around for a few minutes. You know a beer is good when you keep sticking your nose back into an empty glass to sniff!

This is currently at the front of my list of NZ beers, alongside Emersons Pilsner. Really good.

Passionfruit hits straight off the bat. A slight grassiness comes through next a long with a hint of white grape. Brilliantly fresh, clean and tasty especially for a pilsner type beer.

Definitely a hop focussed lager. Strong tropical hop flavours dominate with a soft, clean maltiness supporting the flavour. The bitterness is strong and a little bit harsh in the back of the palate. Crisp, dry finish.

Medium body with moderately high carbonation. Crisp and refreshing. Very vibrant.

This beer is exciting and lots of fun. There is plenty of flavour packed into a clean, easy to drink lager. I really, really like this and if I lived in NZ I could almost see this being my go to beer.

A pale straw yellow with bubbles of all sizes feeding a finger of bone white foam that lasts for a few sips and leaves lace where it existed

S very nice nose on this one, tropical fruit, passion fruit, pineapple and a little lemon, dried grassy notes in the background with some dry cereal, smells strong and solid

T some bready notes and faint rind with some herbal aspect I can't quite place, the tropical notes are still there but toned down, tastes good but the nose was great

M a little thin but the bubbles give it some life, crisp and almost a clean finish just a little citrus and cereal on the finish

O solid offering with a great hop profile, a few Czechs might shake their head at this one but I'm nodding

Perhaps the South Pacific Pilsner should be a style of it's own, I've had a few great examples that would fit the name. I could drink a few of these with no issues at all, I'll be stoked if all the other brews in my mixed 6er are this good

This beer pours a golden hay colour with nice carbonation which forms to a one finger head which slowly reforms to a cloudy haze of head across the top,it smells distincively of Saaz hops with a little maltish aroma to it aswell but the floral,grassy Saaz hops definately overpower the smell but i do like my Saaz hops so very inviting,on tasting this beer the real floral,grassy,fresh hop notes of the Saaz come thru nicely which is nicely balanced out with a full malty body and it finishes very clean and crisp,probably one of the better NZ micro pilsners that i have tried lately.

A - clear straw golden, one finger of head dissipated to a thin cover with minimal lacing
S - biscuity, grainy, leafy, metallic, buttery, classic pilsner
T - buttery biscuit malt matched by crisp leafy green hops, grainy with metallic, so fresh and so clean clean
M - light and crisp with a nice carbonation kick, finishes dry and clean
O - WOW, this has all of the classic aspects of an outstanding czech pils in spades and then some to go with its own unique character, very flavourful and easy drinking, wish i could have this on the regular

Pilsner malts. Hop character is floral rather than grassy - atraditional, but nevertheless effective. Balanced and enjoyable. Crisp and refreshing. Though it's a bit more hop-emphatic than a traditional expression of the style, it works.